{"id":69877,"date":"2024-02-12T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=69877"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T03:41:21","slug":"tal-risk-academy-launches-2024-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2024\/02\/12\/tal-risk-academy-launches-2024-program\/","title":{"rendered":"TAL Risk Academy Launches 2024 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 course program for TAL Risk Academy has been announced, with TAL seeing it as designed to support financial advisers at every career stage.<\/p>\n<p>TAL General Manager of Retail Sales and New Business, <strong>Beau Riley<\/strong>, says the 2024 program offers tailored courses \u201c\u2026ensuring that no matter where advisers are in their career, they have access to education and knowledge that can elevate their expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64329\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-64329\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-1279x1536.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-1920x2305.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-350x420.jpg 350w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-1706x2048.jpg 1706w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-696x836.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/Beau-Riley-TAL-Head-of-Sales-and-Partnerships-Retail-Distribution-2-e1682635903600-1068x1282.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beau Riley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are five streams in this year\u2019s program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foundations<\/li>\n<li>Professional Year<\/li>\n<li>Advice<\/li>\n<li>Business Management<\/li>\n<li>Working with TAL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Riley says the course streams have evolved this year \u201c\u2026to reflect the changing role of financial advice and all courses will continue to be modified to meet evolving adviser needs as the year progresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He notes they are particularly focused on the development of new entrants to the profession \u201c\u2026and equipping advisers with skills and insights to help them successfully navigate the evolving landscape of risk management. Ultimately, this will help their clients manage risks and ensure they are protected should the unexpected happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New this year is the Working with TAL stream \u2013 a program covering elements from product design and pricing to applications and claims.<\/p>\n<p>Riley says the aim is to make it easier for advisers to do business with TAL and this stream &#8220;&#8230;has been designed in response to what advisers have told us they need. The new stream allows us to provide greater support directly with life insurance implementation and claims management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that brand agnostic training is also available for advisers and licensees.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside TAL\u2019s technical team, guest speakers will include FAAA CEO <strong>Sarah Abood<\/strong>, AFCA Ombudsman <strong>Alexandra Sidoti<\/strong>, and GPA Financial Services Adviser and Managing Director <strong>Jason Poole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>TAL notes that since its inception in 2015, the Risk Academy has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recorded over 103,000 course enrolments<\/li>\n<li>Issued more than 183,000 CPD hours<\/li>\n<li>Donated $830,000 in course fees to the Australian Business Community Network charity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adviser.tal.com.au\/-\/media\/tal\/files\/risk-academy\/course-lists\/2024\/tal-risk-academy-course-guide-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download a copy of the 2024 course guide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69879\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adviser.tal.com.au\/-\/media\/tal\/files\/risk-academy\/course-lists\/2024\/tal-risk-academy-course-guide-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69879\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/TAL-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/TAL-2.png 317w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/TAL-2-172x300.png 172w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/TAL-2-241x420.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of TAL 2024 Course Guide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 course program for TAL Risk Academy has been announced, with TAL seeing it as designed to support financial advisers at every career stage. TAL General Manager of Retail Sales and New Business, Beau Riley, says the 2024 program offers tailored courses \u201c\u2026ensuring that no matter where advisers are in their career, they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":69882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8269],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news","8":"category-cpd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}